The Concept
A collaborate planetarium project with Royal Academic Of Music student. A ramdon word was picked to created an abstract film with 3D software : Blender. Our word was umbrage.
UMBRAGE
noun
1 .offense; annoyance; displeasure:
to feel umbrage at a social snub; to give umbrage to someone; totake umbrage at someone's rudeness.
2. the slightest indication or vaguest feeling of suspicion, doubt, hostility,or the like.
3. leaves that afford shade, as the foliage of trees.
4. shade or shadows, as cast by trees.
5. a shadowy appearance or semblance of something.
Concept:
Beginning, was to make the film start with peaceful, comfortable and with colour shade of geometry, but carried with thorn. Then they gather and sprout a dark creature, once they spread to four corners, they become angry and fly up.
Following, the sky fall. Flow down in spirals throbbing and then infect the others. They come to frenzy and spinning around in the dome, mixing together and seperate to the sides of the dome, and transforming into a new form.
Eventually, They become black shades.
We met our musician at Birmingham science muesum Thinktank , we saw some planetarium film to gave us inspiration and as a sample. The dome iflm needs to consider the audience 's perspective, space, and the atmosphere. It can be felt like the audience sitting in a small ball which bouncing and traveling on the street. It can be felt like a coaster game driving through the space.
We learnt Blender with Coral Manton from Thinktank, and we made some test and experiemented the materials before starting to make our film, as below.
Pre-Production
Post design by Suyu.
Screening at London-The Forge 2014/ Birmingham-FlatPack Festival 2015
Designed by Suyu.
Clips from first part of Umbrage, Designed by Suyu.
Production
We communicated with our musician Alice by email. Once we had the latest test or any process, we email to Alice for feedback. It was not a easy communication by email to deliver what we were doing. However, we had gone through all the encounter.
We divided the film to three part, I worked on the first part, Nicola was second part and Tanja the last part. Its was tricky to make sure that each connection of the parts must be the same, then we can edit it . When they were waiting the last shot from my first part, they were experimenting the animation and light and other things in Blender.
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Final Film : UMBRAGE
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